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[News Clip: Rylie School Dispute]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about County Judge Lew Sterrett ruling on when citizens of Rylie, Texas, may vote on the fate of their school district. The video shows several people gathered in the courtroom.
Date: August 8, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hyer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Julien Hyer being picked to serve as a county judge.
Date: August 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rylie School Dispute]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about County Judge Lew Sterrett ruling on when citizens of Rylie, Texas, may vote on the fate of their school district.
Date: August 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Delay]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner and his charges for swindling an elderly Missouri woman for a large sum of money in a phony medical scheme. He has won, for the time being, his desire to prevent his extradition to Missouri to face those charges.
Date: July 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Sexton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the coming trial of eighteen-year-old Frank Sexton Jr.. Sexton is accused of beating and raping a woman with three other youths. The state is expected to ask for the death penalty.
Date: July 23, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Judge Resigns Amid Appointment Rumors]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the resignation of Dallas County Criminal Judge Joe B. Brown. The resignation comes in the midst of dozens of courthouse rumors concerning the appointment of his successor.
Date: December 10, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Dickens]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the formal sentencing of Raymond Seymour Dickens, a convicted rapist. He receives a ninety-nine year prison sentence.
Date: July 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Hearing postponed on medical charges]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about I. R. Conner, who is fighting demands of Leonard Davis, sheriff of Osage County, Missouri, that Conner return to the state to face charges of swindling. The state alleges that Conner swindled an elderly woman out of one-thousand-and-three-hundred dollars by professing to know a cure for cataracts.
Date: July 11, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Pruitt denied new trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about eighteen-year-old Bennie Pruitt asking to be spared of his five-year prison sentence. He was found to have taken part in a robbery and beating of two men, which resulted in their death. Judge McGee says that the original verdict must stand.
Date: July 20, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the trial of Eugene Sanders Hague. He has been indicted for the August 26 fatal shooting of Ernest Charles Allbrite.
Date: December 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Politics]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the democratic primary election, for which the polls open tomorrow. Several politicians hope to win positions as governor or in the state senate, among others.
Date: July 27, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Rapists]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about two fifteen-year-old boys charged with the rape and beating of a young couple. The boys are William Eason and Donald Mitchell. The youths are sentenced to confinement at the Gatesville State School for Boys until they turn twenty-one.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Gann trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the murder trial of Charles Edwin Gann, who was accused of shooting an 18-year-old airman. Gann was found guilty and given a life sentence.
Date: April 30, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: News briefs -- wedding]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a wedding between a Dallas convict and a woman he previously divorced, after his arrest for abandoning his child support payments.
Date: June 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mrs. Lee seeks new site for trial]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about proceedings in the murder trial of Mrs. Elsie Mae Lee, a Dallas woman accused of murdering her dentist husband. Mrs. Lee requests that her trial be relocated to another county, citing negative publicity.
Date: May 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Counting bandit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Laverne Lighter pleading guilty to six armed robberies throughout the Fort Worth area.
Date: March 19, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Disputed school vote canvassed]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Judge Lew Sterrett canvassing an election that abolished the Farmers Branch school district.
Date: May 4, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Woman sentenced in forgery cases]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the trial of Connie Lou Cartwright, a young Fort Worth woman accused of 11 counts of forgery. Cartwright pleads guilty in Tarrant County Criminal Court and is sentenced to two years in prison.
Date: June 1, 1954
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Judge honored on 85th birthday]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the 85th birthday celebration of Judge William Hawley Atwell, who had been a judge for 31 years.
Date: June 9, 1954
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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